Centre grants recognition to 36 PG diploma courses offered by College of Physicians and Surgeons

NEW DELHI : The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has granted recognition to 36 postgraduate diploma programmes offered by the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS), Mumbai for those students who took admission in these courses during October 17, 2017 and February 12, 2018. The decision came after some students who had taken admission in these courses, after the government took away these qualifications from CPS, faced issues.

“You are therefore requested to give this a wide publicity so that the students concerned could get benefit of the decision of the government of India,” the ministry said in a letter to the National Medical Commission.

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The Ministry received a representation from a student who took admission in one of the 36 courses offered by the college after the ministry’s notification and is now facing problems in getting her PG qualification registered. After examining the matter, the Ministry found that there are a total of 466 students who are facing issues.

“Therefore, keeping in mind the future of the students, it is decided and clarified that these qualifications stand recognized for those students who had taken admission between 17.10.17 and 12.02.2018,” read the ministry's official letter.

The Ministry had first added and then deleted the PG diploma qualifications of CPS from the First and Third Schedule of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956.